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It's not like New Year's Eve was so rough, really. But it's back to school for the kids, and that makes for a tough morning. We'll all be back on our feet tomorrow, so we'll have a live show to end the week!
Today's "classic" episode is for the procedure nuts. It's our from January 3, 2013 show, and that's the one where we discussed the procedure involved in the of opening the (then) new 113th Congress, the election of the Speaker on the House side, and then the history and mechanics of the "constitutional option," and the basis for the claim that there's a "magic window" of sorts, during which the Senate rules can be changed by a simple majority vote.
Now, as we all know, the procedure by which cloture can now be invoked on judicial and executive nominations was changed this past November. But those following the discussion on KITM know that the November changes didn't actually alter the standing rules of the Senate, but instead created a new precedent for their interpretation. The procedure explained in this episode is somewhat different, in that it can be used to invoke cloture on an actual change to the standing rules by majority vote. This is the procedure reformers may still want to come back to in 2015, if they're interested in implementing something like the "talking filibuster" for regular legislative business, as opposed to simply doing away with the filibuster altogether.
It might not be to everyone's taste, but I'm pretty sure no one anywhere else has ever laid it all out quite like this. At least not in a form you can play on your iPod.
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